pipe bowl

pipe bowl

pipe bowl

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Introduction

A pipe bowl made of ground stone and engraved with perforations around the bowl's edge. Collected by Daniel Wilson, from the Six Nations of the Grand River in the mid-19th century. Acquired by the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre in 1955, as part of a larger transfer from the Royal Scottish Museum.

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular nation(s)

The museum register states the pipe was marked "Grand River Canada," implying a Hodenosaunee maker. However in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland list of donations to the Scottish museum, it is described as Chippewa (See Proceedings, Vol. 5, p.124 no.16).

Place of Origin: Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
Date Made or Date Range: to 1860s
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

Museum documentation.

Materials

stone

Techniques or Format

The stone has been ground and engraved to create the pipe. There are 10 grooves around the bowl below the mouth and six incomplete perforations below the grooves.

Motifs and Patterns

lines

Condition: The stem has broken off and the surface appears to have been rubbed.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Presented to the Scottish Museum by Daniel Wilson in 1863.

Current Location: Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Scotland
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: A.1955.26.d.
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1955
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: before 1863
Collection Narratives and Histories

Daniel Wilson, University of Toronto likely collected this piece as part of material gathered from Six Nations and sent to his brother, George Wilson, who was director of Scotland's Industrial Museum (the precursor to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, or NMA) in the mid-19th C.

Publication History

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Volume 5, p.124 or 125.

GKS Reference Number: 26226
Record Creation Context

This record was created 9 Apr 2007 as part of a GRASAC research trip to Scotland.

Record Creation Notes/Observations

On-site researchers: Cory Willmott, Heidi Bohaker, Laura Peers, Ruth Phillips, Keith Jamieson, Alan Corbiere, Alison Brown, Patricia Allen.

Approximate Place of Origin

45.7335, -82.1694

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